Would this be considered an "anti-dig?"

[Yooper14]

Hey everyone.
I don't want to muddy up the "digging and finding" forum with this picture, but I think a lot of us cross hobbies in here. Me, I'm a "Metal-detecting, bottle-digging, insulator-snagging, etc" kind of guy. I'll be darned if these goofy poles weren't nearly in my own backyard and I never noticed them! Ripe for the picking. But rather than climb poles, I'm super excited about a design for a grabber-pole that I'm "inventing" and building. Anyone else have retrieval methods for insulators on poles they'd like to share?
Tim

 

[capsoda]

Hey Tim, You can buy poles with triger operated fingers on the end. I have seen tree docs with them.

 

[SergioWilkins]

I just use climbing gear! It's super effective, and good exercise!
Of course, you've got to do it right - I had a couple dozen hours clocked in lessons before I dared climb without someone right beside me whilst doing so.
Plus - you really get to see everything from up there. It's better than trying to figure out what you've got from the ground!
All the best!

 

[kastoo]

You saw this insulator picker page, right?

http://myinsulators.com/shelleys-insulators/snag.html

 

[Yooper14]

Great Link - thank you - I hadn't seen that one before!

 

[capsoda]

What wont a glass collector do for a fix.[]

 

[Yooper14]

You got that right. For me half of this hobby is the challenge of a hunt ... a challenge of finding new sites. That in itself is a joy to me.

 

[Brains]

those look like nice insulators up there, you should do what you can to get them [] looks like some light aqua signal insulators as well.

 

[capsoda]

Hey Tim, Does the word CHAINSAW mean anything to you??? [sm=lol.gif][sm=lol.gif][sm=lol.gif][sm=lol.gif][sm=lol.gif]

 

[Yooper14]

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I've thought of that...too easy. There's got to be a more difficult way. Maybe I can post a closer shot of some of the insulators that you guys can peek at and see if you can ID them better.
Tim